AWS Public Sector Blog
(Big) Data Driven Politics: 800m Data Points
Earlier this week you heard MPAC’s journey to the cloud from the stage at AWS re:Invent, and today we are excited to share with you Quorum’s story. Think big data: everything political from bills, votes, tweets, letters, and more. With an election year coming up, politics are on the center stage. Whether you vote red […]
“Because We Had No Choice”: MPAC Achieved Over 75% Savings
At this year’s AWS re:Invent, our annual user conference, we featured various customers to speak to the public sector audience in attendance. The morning was kicked off by Teresa Carlson, who you heard from in our first blog, and then three of our customers took to the stage to address their challenges, and how they […]
Millions of Students in 180 Countries Participate in Hour of Code
During December 7-13, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week, tens of millions of students in 180+ countries participated in Code.org’s “The Hour of Code” powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. To […]
Welcome to the AWS Innovating in the Public Sector Blog
A post by Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector I am thrilled to welcome you to Amazon Web Services’ “Innovating in the Public Sector” blog! This blog is all about you, our public sector customers, and will be your place for all public sector-specific content. I’ve had the pleasure […]